The Eyre Affair~Jasper Fforde

Original entry date: March 22, 2002
If you had locked Douglas Adams up in a library, this is the book he would have written. From the literal bookworms, to Rocky Horror-style productions of Richard III, to the Baconians proselyting door-to-door, this is the world lit geeks like me want to live in. Heck, it actually made me like Rochester (though I still don't know what Jane sees in him). I wish I was a LiteraTec (literary detective) with a quirky British name. Figures that my true vocation in life is fictional.
"Take no heed of her," explained Jones apologetically. "She reads a lot of books." Wonder if I could get that on a t-shirt?